High brow meets low brow

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Yogananda Paramahansa

1946

Sozialgeschichte der Kunst und Literatur

Arnold Hauser

1951

A dictonary of archaic and provincial words, obsolete phrases, proverbs, and ancient customs, from the fourteenth century

James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps

1846

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Robert M. Pirsig

1974

Berlin Alexanderplatz

Alfred Döblin

1929

Homo Ludens

Johan Huizinga

1938

Authority and the Individual

Bertrand Russell

1949

Freakonomics

Steven D. Levitt

2005